Unlike contemporary societies in Syria and Mesopotamia, wool was not used as a staple finance good in the Early Bronze Age southern Levant (c ... These difficult-to-map processes of urban ...

Long before alphabets came into existence, human civilisations used different means to communicate such as images and ...

At an archaeological excavation site in western Syria, Schwartz unearthed a “finger-length” clay cylinder with etched letters ...

Although far from the oldest writing we have found, these cylinders are 500 years older than any previously known example of alphabetic script, if that is indeed what they carry.

The early writing appears to date to around 2400 B.C.—preceding the previous most bygone examples by roughly 500 years.

The Sumerians of Mesopotamia built a language from cuneiforms ... Archaeologists working the site have discovered Early Bronze Age tombs, the university said, including a well-preserved grave ...

Cuneiform, considered to be the oldest known writing system, was developed by the Sumerians of Mesopotamia (an ancient ... tombs dating back to the Early Bronze Age. Among these is a particularly ...